https://ionpowergroup.com/how-it-works-on-earth/Most have heard about Ben Franklin (and son) flying a kite in stormy weather and seeing a spark jump from a key attached to the kite string to ground.
If you do not want to recharge your battery from either:
electric company source
local internal combustion engine generator
steam engine generator
solar cell
wind mill
hydroelectric dam
tidal flow generator
it is also possible to generate some electric power simply by having a long wire with one end up high, and the other end low and connected to ground.
Current will flow, and you can pass this current through a battery or motor.
Hint: current kinda low in typical weather unless one wire end very high up.
This also works in space,
and you may have heard about the “tether experiment” that sadly could not unspool its extremely long wire.
